"I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long."

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Michelle Shocked

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“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.”
“I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.”
“A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?”
“The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. Wishing you a great journey.”

Source : "Columbia: what the papers say" by Sarah Left, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2003.
“I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.”
“(After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was to never be pinned.”
“The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.”
“The main reason why I'm a documentary filmmaker is the power of the medium. The most powerful films I've seen have been documentaries. Of course, there are some narrative films that I could never forget, but there are more documentaries that have had that impact on me.”

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